Music inventions 07/07

20070169607 - Method of using a personal digital stereo player: Disclosed is a music jukebox which is configured for storing a music library therein. The music jukebox includes a housing, audio input structure on the housing for receiving audio signals, audio output structure on the housing for outputting audio signals, and a data storage structure in the housing for storing... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20070169610 - Acoustic practice percussion instrument and practice kit: An acoustic percussion instrument and percussion set containing the instrument. The instrument includes a hollow cylindrical shell having a first end and a second end and an inside cylindrical surface. A first substantially rigid plate having an outside surface and an inside surface is attached adjacent to the first end... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20070169611 - Adjustable drum pedal assembly: An adjustable drum pedal assembly has a pedal assembly, a drive device and a return device. The pedal assembly is used to operate the adjustable drum pedal assembly and has a pedal, a rotating shaft and a drum hammer. The drive device is connected to the pedal and is mounted... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C. Suite 500

20070169613 - Similar music search method and apparatus using music content summary: A similar music search method, including: extracting an audio feature value from a compression zone of a music file and generating a music content summary using the extracted audio feature; classifying a mood and a genre of the music file by using the generated music content summary; extracting a similarity... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070169614 - Apparatus for controlling music reproduction and apparatus for reproducing music: In order to reproduce music suitable for a situation where a user listens to the music while performing repetitive exercise, if a walking tempo value sensed by a walking tempo sensing portion 3 falls outside a certain range defined on the basis of a music tempo value of a music... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070169615 - Controlling audio effects: An audio effects control for and method of controlling the application of special audio effects applied to an audio signal, comprises a sensor configured to sense movement associated with the generation of the audio signal, wherein the sensor produces a control signal in response to detecting the movement, and the... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070163418 - Carbon-fiber laminate musical instrument sound board: A soundboard for a hollow-body stringed instrument made of layers of carbon-fiber and resin material surrounding a core of one or more layers of constant-thickness plywood, veneer (thinly sliced wood) or paper. Additional shaped layers are provided to produce a desired pattern of stiffness in the soundboard. The soundboard may... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20070163420 - Interchangeable decorative covers for guitar components: An interchangeable cover covers the front viewable face of a body and/or a headstock of a guitar. The removable cover has an outline corresponding to an outline of the front face of the guitar body and/or headstock. Fasteners are provided along a periphery of each removable cover to attach each... Agent: Alfred M. Walker

20070163421 - Wind instrument having a modified tone-rich surface: A wind instrument with improved tonal characteristics by positioning an octave hole, an octave key mechanism, and/or a water key on a surface of the wind instrument that is not a tone-rich region. The wind instrument may be a woodwind instrument such as a saxophone or a brass instrument such... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20070163423 - Drumhead assembly with improved rebound: A drumhead comprising a mesh membrane having a bottom surface and a damper contacting at least a portion of the bottom surface for improved rebound. Also, a practice drumhead assembly including the mesh membrane with a damper in contact with at least a portion of the bottom surface, held in... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20070163422 - Practice drumhead assembly: A practice drumhead assembly including a mesh membrane held in substantially fixed relation to an acoustic membrane. The assembly preferably includes an annular tensioning ring for tensioning the mesh membrane, and an engagement member for substantially fixing the mesh membrane relative to the acoustic membrane. The tensioning ring includes a... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20070163424 - Method and device for adjusting cymbal sound: A method of optimizing the sound produced by a musical cymbal is disclosed wherein at least one segment including sound absorbing material having a specific, predetermined shape and thickness is applied to a mapped surface of a cymbal in order to alter the volume, frequency and duration of sound produced... Agent: Richard L. Strauss, Esq.

20070163426 - Automatic musical performance device: [Solution] A time period Tv between two points, and a tempo Tmp found based on a time intervals between two-point detection and later two-point detection, are found based on detection signals at the two points and later detection signals at the two points; and a delay time fD(Tv), which is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070163425 - Melody retrieval system: A music retrieval system which take an input melody as the query. In one embodiment, changes or differences in the distribution of energy across the frequency spectrum over time are used to find breakpoints in the input melody in order to separate it into distinct notes. In another embodiment the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070163427 - Systems and methods for generating video game content: Systems and methods for a creating a music-based video game are described as is a portable music and video device housing a memory for storing executable instructions and a processor for executing the instructions. Creating video game content using musical content supplied from a source other than the game includes... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070157788 - Twelve piece soundboard for stringed musical instruments: Soundboards of stringed musical instruments, such as guitars, are usually made of 2 pieces of matched wood and are usually braces in an X configuration. This author uses 12 triangular pieces, shaped like wedges, each cut to 30 degrees. The apex or point of each piece terminates under the bridge.... Agent: Robert A. Meilleur

20070157789 - Locking bridge: Included herein is an instrument component for mounting to the body of an instrument having strings, for example a guitar. The instrument component comprises a plurality of attachment devices, an elongated bracket, and a biasing element. The elongated bracket includes a plurality of attachment apertures where each aperture includes a... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070157790 - Locking tailpiece: Included herein is an instrument component for mounting to the body of an instrument having strings, for example a guitar. The instrument component comprises a plurality of attachment devices, an elongated bracket, and a biasing element. The elongated bracket includes a plurality of attachment apertures where each aperture includes a... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070157791 - Methods for infusing matter with vibration: Methods of infusing matter with vibration. One method can include cleansing the matter with at least one vibration instrument and infusing the matter with vibration with at least one vibration instrument. The method can also include creating a buffer in the matter to retain the infused vibration in the matter... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070157792 - Ocarina: Disclosed is an ocarina in which a musical performance can be performed with an accurate tone and rapidly, by solving problems that, in the case of an existing round type ocarina, various musical performance having high musical range is impossible because a width of the musical range is narrow and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070157793 - Head muting device for percussion instruments, in particular for drums and/or bass drums: The invention relates to a head muting device (1) for percussion instruments (7), in particular drums (2) and/or bass drums (3). The head muting device (1) comprises at least one muting element (4) and a retaining element (5), which is used to bring the muting element or elements (4) into... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070157796 - Tone synthesis apparatus and method: In a storage section, there are stored special connecting waveform data for connecting between at least two notes to be generated in succession. The special connecting waveform data contain only a waveform of a succeeding-note region of a waveform connecting portion which is provided for a continuous transition between the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070157797 - Taste profile production apparatus, taste profile production method and profile production program: A taste profile production apparatus includes a storage section configured to retain one or more music data; a music analysis section configured to analyze the music data using a predetermined music analysis method to classify numerical value meta data, which are successive values for a plurality of individual items representative... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070157798 - Apparatus and method for reproducing audio signal: An audio signal reproducing apparatus includes a storage unit for storing digital audio data of music pieces each having a tempo corresponding to either a first tempo or a second tempo, the second tempo being different from the first tempo, if a walking tempo of a user is either the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.